From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 13:49:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D6237B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58CC743FBF for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:49:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1050612545.15309c@mired.org) Received: (qmail 5270 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2003 20:49:05 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 12 Apr 2003 20:49:05 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-inject, from uid 100); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:49:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16024.31681.1085.333819@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:49:05 -0500 To: Tom Wadlow In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.73 (Jet Pilot) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Applixware Office X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:49:07 -0000 In , Tom Wadlow typed: > I've gotten the 5.0 binaries to run under 4.5, but there was some minor > weirdness required. They don't trivially run under 4.7 and it is clear that the > weirdness needed is increasing as OS and binaries drift further apart. That is > a curve that will one day become too steep to play on. I've considered > switching to something like OpenOffice.org, but I've got a lot of Applixware > stuff around, and it is considerably more lightweight than OO. At the very > least it would be helpful to run them side by side on the same machine for a > while to help convert things. FWIW, I've got Applixware 5.0 running on 4.8-PRERELEASE. It requires hacking some support code and using LD_PRELOAD to provide the functionality that is no longer in the libraries that applix uses. I can let you have that if you want it. I've been contemplating the move to OpenOffice as well, and would be interested in any answers to the questions you asked. > So my question is this: What is the status of Applixware with regards to > FreeBSD? The original company appears to be out of business or vastly changed. > I believe that the Desktop Edition version was generated after the company > went away. Does somebody in the FreeBSD world have source? Is that source > available generally? If not generally, is it being maintained? If not, is > it in search of a maintainer? The Applixware product line still exists, and has been renamred to "Anyware." It's a product of VistaSource, and you can find more information about it at . The problem we have is that the various BSD versions were never really supported by VistaSource, and they didn't sell them themselves. Those came from Walnut Creek CDROM and later BSDI, and seem to have fallen by the wayside. I suspect that if someone who is doing a BSD distribution stepped up and asked, they could get us a new version. But it's going to take action from the BSD side of things to make it happen. I'm probably going to switch to OpenOffice when I switch my desktop to 5-STABLE, unless a new BSD version becomes available. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.